Lapse · Haken

100 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 4:14 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-13, 17-19 and 21 -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
LAPSE · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 40, 42, 51 and 15 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 51-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 12 sections: 40 keep time, 21 are fills, 1 is a stop and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-25.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART K
PART O
PART T
PART AE
OUTRO
12 groovesS12BKOT+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lapse?

120 BPM, in 5/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Lapse hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Lapse?

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 40, 42, 51 and 15 more.

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